Seeing Beyond Ourselves

by The Arbinger Institute

Through true stories and simple yet profound guidance and tools, The Outward Mindset enables individuals and organizations to make the one change that most dramatically improves performance, sparks collaboration and accelerates innovation — a shift to an outward mindset.

Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking

by Matthew May

In Winning the Brain Game, author and creative strategist Matthew E. May explains these and other “fatal flaws” of thinking, revealing seven observable problem-solving patterns that can block our best thinking.

Follow This Path describes how organizations should value and develop relationships with their employees and customers. Authors Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, Ph.D. use research from a Gallup study to show how developing your employees can lead to major cost efficiencies and profits.

Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

by Margaret Wheatley

In the chaotic times in which we live, we need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us. With the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics, this new science offers this guidance. Management professor Margaret Wheatley describes in Leadership and the New Science, how the new science drastically changes our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work better together in these chaotic times.

The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance

by Boris Groysberg

It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. In Chasing Stars, Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.

Leadership Strategies for the Age of Connected Relationships

by David Nour

Return on Impact hands leaders the tools that associations and other membership organizations can wield in order to harness the opportunities of the socially enabled world and ensure their growth in the coming times. David Nour charts the implications of a socially enabled world and the reinvention - in structure and governance, talent acquisition, listening practices, and business and revenue models - that leaders of organizations must undertake to fuel growth in the next decade.

Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential

by John C. Maxwell

The concept of 5 levels of leadership is one that John C. Maxwell has taught all over the world. The levels represent stages in leadership development starting with being the boss who people follow because you have been appointed as their leader, to reaching the pinnacle of leadership, when you are followed because of who you are and what you represent. In The 5 Levels of Leadership, you will learn how to master the ability to inspire people and achieve results. Maxwell details each...

Get Everyone to Follow Your Lead on Your Way to the Top

by Harrison Monarth

The best leaders influence those who are below and above them, as well as people external to the organization, such as customers and partners. In 360 Degrees of Influence, Harrison Monarth provides advice on how to gain the trust and respect of those around you and how to expand your influence well beyond your immediate environment. Providing valuable insight into human emotion and behavior, Monarth reveals the secrets to knowing what people are thinking and feeling — maybe...